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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
A collection of brief, cheeky observations and quips touching on firemen, a morals professor, Congo, timber famine, a manufacturer marrying an actress, a Boston reward for stopping profanity, a southward drifting pole theory, Franco Turkish posturing, metalizing bodies, brass character, anti dynamite immigrants, counterfeit hen output, immigrants’ etiquette, and the merry widower idea.
A news report notes coal prices decline as expected and wonders if autumn would bring even stronger benefits. It argues small towns face a common problem: retaining young men, with many remedies offered but few practical. It suggests keeping the community buoyed by retaining the young women locally.
The famed singer Adelina Patti reportedly intends another farewell tour of the United States. While well used to such announcements, Americans may expect some caution about the veteran diva's plans as rumors of a final performance circulate.
The Lady’s Pictorial critiques women’s roles while a business note shows Alabama pig iron shipments to Mediterranean ports signaling growing demand. An Ohio mayor warns against women driving cars and urges sewing machines, with a nod to John Hay’s Breadwinners and its anonymous author credit.
A man picking dandelions beside a wall was crushed by a trolley car that jumped the track and struck him, in a dramatic and unlikely accident. The report notes the event as a rare tragedy, unlikely to recur soon.
A Cedar Falls area fire destroys Helfer and Leverree barns killing three horses and destroying grain hay and gear. Multiple storms cause heavy damage across the state with homes barns and schools destroyed. casualties include James Sherman from Fort Dodge and others in Perry Shenandoah and Waterloo.
Congress shows party splits as the Senate substitutes the Aldrich currency bill for the Vreeland measure and passes it under a special rule. The House backs military academy, public building, and various appropriation bills while insurgents join Democrats to oppose the currency proposal. The sundry civil bill, about 120 million, clears the Senate as does the motto restoration on coins. The Brownsville case is postponed, naval and post office appropriations move forward, and betting at the Benning track is halted with a conference-backed emergency currency push.
Mrs Christina Metsker of South Bend Ind is acquitted of murdering Carleton Morgan shot April 10 in front of Mrs Mae Greens Cassopolis Mich The verdict drew a remarkable courtroom demonstration as other local legal and political items were noted including Taft endorsements and a senator resigning proposal.
Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry takes command of the great Atlantic fleet of battleships. The change follows the retirement of Rear Admiral Thomas.
Three more possible victims tied to Mrs. Gella Gunness on her La Porte farm are named as investigators find an accomplice. A. K. Helgelein, a late victim, is buried in La Porte, and jawbone fragments from Gunness’s skull are identified by a dentist.
An Iowa notice warns of frequent spring tornadoes across Lee Muscatine Dubuque Jones Lyon Sioux Plymouth Pottawattamie Humboldt Wright Page Fremont and more. It promotes Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association of Des Moines as affordable coverage with sizable risk totals, low assessments, and past storm payouts.
A New York Telegraph item describes fashionable uptown apartments with restaurant leases forcing tenants to eat in public dining rooms. Managers crackdown on in-room food, milk deliveries, and even cooking, leading to dramatic scenes as a notorious complainer is caught with pork sausages frying in a lit hallway.
A jumble of varied notes reports on debt among rising youths, a wine dealer jailed for producing fake Rhine wine, Antwerp diamond cutters laid off due to US demand, and a Davenport Iowa ordinance clash over saloon visibility. It also mentions belabored chemistry in wine, wary goose farming in Russia and Poland, and a Whitehall New York justice nicknamed Old Perfumers.
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